posted at 12:37 pm on April 11, 2007 by Ian

Civil rights attorney and talk show host Leo Terrell exploded last night on Hannity & Colmes after radio talk show host Larry Elder accused Terrell of calling him an “Uncle Tom” on his own show. Terrell denied the charge and instead called Elder an “apologist.” Continuing, Terrell told Elder “racism is alive and well in this country” and “I have a problem with you downplaying racism.” Then came the nugget. Terrell told Elder: “as an African-American, I am ashamed of you sometimes.” That’s not racist, or anything. Right?

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Empirical evidence of the vast gulf between conservative, and liberal. It is worth remembering that empiricism does not hold that we have empirical knowledge automatically. Rather, for any knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced, it is to be gained ultimately from one’s sense-based experience.

Uh, BC, Leo Terrell “explodes” every single time he’s on any show besides his own. I’ve never seen him in a discussion where he hasn’t thrown a temper tantrum.

Chad on April 11, 2007 at 1:04 PM

I’ve only ever seen him on H&C, so maybe he does throw his tantrums on other shows(I’m not surprised), I’m just surprised that Ian characterized it that way, given that the HA crew keep an eye on the news and pick out the good crazy on a daily basis. I thought Terrell’s ‘explosion’ would be less surprising to him.

Why do liberals think that shouting makes their message some how more relevant…
LakeRuins on April 11, 2007 at 12:49 PM

They don’t actually think it makes the argument more relevant. It’s just that they would have a hard time in an argument getting away with just sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming “La La La La La!!! I can’t hear you!!!!”

Why do liberals think that shouting makes their message some how more relevant
LakeRuins on April 11, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Because if you’re not completely outraged, you’re not paying attention. Didn’t you know that, LakeRuins?

A while back I don’t remember when or who, a democrat had an interview on one of the news channels. They were talking about a woman of color who was a South African with a heavy accent. So at some point in this interview this PC and caring for the minoritys Democrat calls this woman “African American”
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Hey, let’s be fair: Terrell has never been anything but an unstable psychotic airbag. Everyone knows it. Cable news shows only book him because he’s guaranteed to explode in a frothy fit of self-righteous self-importance. Great TV, man! Awesome!

But I love Terrell – love, love, love him. He’s on my list of wonderful, wacky liberals, along with Rosie the Realist and Michael “I Ate Pittsburgh” Moore. And, of course, the Great Goracle himself.

I love all of these people, because together and collectively, they work a thousand times harder than Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter combined to keep liberalism at bay.

Someday, some smart liberal might suddenly wake up and realize that if they put a muzzle on these people … they might win more elections. I fear that day, I really do. Liberalism is dangerous, and folks like Terrell expose the danger, and keep the country in some kind of balance. People like Terrell and Michael “Dude, I ate your car” Moore kept Kerry out of the White House. How could I not love them?

I swear to God I keep looking for wires in the back of Terrell’s (and Rosie’s) head … connected to the Rovian Remote Control device … because we all know that these people do more to elect Republicans than anybody else.

Gwillie reminded me of something. I once had a government class with a PC doofus (he was a pretty good teacher though, I took both his classes), at one point he was talking about something that happened in Africa, and he kept referring to the people that lived there as ‘African A-’. It happened every time! On 1984, when they are talking about Newspeak, they say that they are reducing the words in the language to reduce thinking. It has become clear to me that political correctness is literally Newspeak.

They don’t actually think it makes the argument more relevant. It’s just that they would have a hard time in an argument getting away with just sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming “La La La La La!!! I can’t hear you!!!!”

eeyore on April 11, 2007 at 1:12 PM

Didn’t Terrel actually do that once? Oh wait, I’m sorry, he hung up. He was on the Sean Hannity Show with Jesse Lee Peterson, and I guess he didn’t like what they were saying, so he hung up.

Empirical evidence of the vast gulf between conservative, and liberal. It is worth remembering that empiricism does not hold that we have empirical knowledge automatically. Rather, for any knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced, it is to be gained ultimately from one’s sense-based experience.

k2comp on April 11, 2007 at 1:02 PM

Never taken a philosophy class have you, specifically one in Logic…

Ultimately knowledge is known through reason. We know there are no square circles by logic, not experience. We can not know any truth empirically, we know it logically. We can empirically place data into logic, but not the other way around.